The reception room of the post house.
After Tianjiro came out from behind the screen, his expression was very ugly. It seemed that he had heard the conversation between Li Jin and Suzuki Shigehide just now.
"how?"
Li Jin asked meaningfully:
"I've told you before that your intention to destroy the Ashikaga family and the Southern Dynasty will not die."
"Now that the Ashikaga family directly throws you Nanchao and Saikaidō as bait, I am a little tempted."
Hearing this, Tianjiro hurriedly said:
"My lord, please don't be fooled. Suzuki Shigehide is just acting for the occasion."
"The Western Kaido Road is isolated overseas and is not the territory of the Ashikaga family at all. They just want to use your hands to create a rift between you and our court."
"Now that we are joining forces, the Ashikaga family is at the end of its rope, so they have to come up with such a vicious plan just to destroy our relationship."
Tianjiro was very nervous and wanted to persuade Li Jin to give up his idea, but Li Jin looked at him with a half-smile and said:
"But the temptation of Xihai Road to our Ming Dynasty is too great. Even if I am not tempted, it is difficult for us, the Ming Emperor, to say."
When Tian Shilang saw what Li Jin said, he had to grit his teeth and say bravely:
"Sir, we are willing to lease the entire Shanyin Province to Ming Dynasty. As long as it is a town occupied by Ming Dynasty, we are willing to lease it to Ming Dynasty."
"I only hope that Ming can help us and destroy the Ashikaga family."
"My lord has just said that, as the great kingdom of heaven, Ming Dynasty should help Japan bring order to chaos and clean up the world."
"Now the Ashikaga family is causing trouble to Chaosuna, leading to the collapse of the country, and even the emperor has to flee south. Isn't this a provocation to the Ming Dynasty?"
"As long as the Ming Dynasty wipes out the rebellious parties and helps our Emperor Daigo unify the Japanese islands, we are willing to regard the Ming Dynasty as our suzerain country and never betray it."
What Tianjiro said was very resounding. He knelt down directly and seemed to be very sincere.
Li Jin stared at Tian Shilang for a while, then took out a peace contract from his sleeve and said softly:
"If you are really sincere, then sign your name on the peace treaty."
"I, Daming, always treat my friends with the utmost benevolence and justice."
"As long as Mr. Tian Shang is willing to be our friend of the Ming Dynasty, then we will do our best to help you wipe out the rebellious parties and restore the government."
Tianjiro took the contract from Li Jin and read it carefully.
But after only watching a small part of it, Tajiro's face became ugly, changing from green to red, and then from red to black, as if he was changing his face, which was very funny.
Tianjiro suppressed his anger and read the contract, but after reading it, he was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly.
He forced himself to swallow his anger, and then refused:
"Sir, this...this contract...I...I can't sign it."
"Tagami-kun needs to think clearly."
Li Jin was not in a hurry, and the peace treaty he presented to Tian Jilang was the Treaty of Shimonoseki that Li Jin had drafted before.
Seeing Tianjiro being so ignorant, Li Jin gently rubbed his chin and said:
"Now our Ming Dynasty can help the Southern Dynasty destroy the Northern Dynasty, and we can also help the Northern Dynasty annex the West Sea Road, and then send troops to attack Yamato."
"You are not willing to sign this contract, but I believe Suzuki Shigehide is absolutely willing to sign it."
"They will do whatever it takes to win."
"Once they sign this peace treaty first, then my Ming Dynasty's friends will become the Ashikaga family, and you can only become my Ming Dynasty's enemy."
"At that time, the direction of the war will be beyond my control."
"Tagami-kun, do you understand?"
Faced with this naked war blackmail, Tianjiro's face turned red with anger and his body was trembling, but there was nothing he could do.
Nowadays, the Northern and Southern Dynasties are facing each other, and the two sides are evenly matched. Although the Northern Dynasties are slightly in decline, their military strength is very strong.
Neither the North nor the South could do anything about the other. At this time, Daming stepped in and completely disturbed the situation on the island.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is like the winning weight. Whichever side it falls to, that side will win.
So now the Ming Dynasty can be said to be up for grabs. The Southern and Northern Dynasties can only frantically show their goodwill to the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they can only be defeated and die.
Tajiro took a deep breath and said:
"I want to report this peace treaty to the Emperor. I can't make the decision myself."
"That's natural, but you don't have much time."
Li Jin expressed his understanding, but did not give Tianjiro any more time to delay. He just said:
"I'll give you five days. If you haven't considered it clearly within five days, I will start negotiations with the Ashikaga family."
"I believe that the Ashikaga family will never let me down."
Tianjiro nodded in agreement.
Seeing that the matter was done, Li Jin thought about it, and then said to Tianjiro:
"If you have nothing to do tomorrow, Mr. Tagami, you can come to my Daming Military Camp and I will invite Mr. Tagami to watch a performance."
Tianjiro was puzzled, what kind of performance could be seen in the military camp?
However, Tianjiro did not dare to refuse Li Jin's invitation. He could only express repeatedly that he would definitely be there.
Later, Li Jin handed the peace treaty in his hand to Tianjiro and asked him to quickly write a letter to discuss the matter with Emperor Daigo, leaving them little time.
...
Above the endless East China Sea, a fleet is sailing slowly.
After receiving Zhu Yuanzhang's secret message, Xu Da decisively dispatched the third fleet to return to the Ming Dynasty and bring Zhu Biao and Tang He from Yingtian Mansion to Japanese Island.
Ever since the Ming Dynasty naval fleet sailed from Shanghu County, arrived directly at Wa Island, and successfully raided Ishimi Country on Wa Island, it seemed like a completely different person.
The fleet's sailing mileage has been greatly increased. With the experience of this long-distance voyage, the Ming Navy fleet can now be said to be all over the ocean.
Especially the route from the south of the Yangtze River to the Japanese island in the Ming Dynasty is already very familiar, and accidents rarely occur.
It is winter now, which is the best time to sail out to sea, so the Third Fleet successfully received Zhu Biao and Tang He's 10,000 Beijing soldiers.
It was the first time for these people to take a sea ship, and it was very miserable to have vomiting and diarrhea on the bumpy sea.
However, as time went on, Zhu Biao, Tang He and others finally got over it. At least now they no longer felt so seasick. They were even in the mood to board the deck and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the ocean.
"Your Highness, I don't know what is going on that actually requires you to go to the Japanese island in person?"
Tang He couldn't help but couldn't help his curiosity and couldn't help asking.
Zhu Biao looked at the boundless blue sky and blue sea in front of him, chuckled and said:
"I remember Uncle Tang is also one of the shareholders of the East India Chamber of Commerce."
"Exactly."
Tang He was so smart. When he heard Zhu Biao mention the East India Chamber of Commerce, he couldn't help but feel shocked, and then said incredulously:
"Has Japan been captured?"
Zhu Biao shook his head and said:
"not yet."
"But the Yinshan promised by Li Jin has been found. I went here this time just to verify the situation."
Tang He's eyes were filled with shock. Of course he knew what the silver mountain Zhu Biao was talking about was.
When Li Jin directly boasted that this silver mountain had at least 500 million taels of silver reserves, Tang He thought this was pure fantasy.
You must know that even the great Ming Dynasty and the Celestial Empire, with its vast territory and thousands of miles of fertile fields, do not have such large reserves of silver mines.
Not to mention how could a small country like Japan have such large reserves of silver mines?
But now it seems that my situation is indeed small.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Ming Dynasty went to inspect the silver mine personally. If the reserves of this silver mine are too small, does Zhu Biao still need to personally go out?
Thinking of this, Tanghe realized that the silver reserves in Iwami Ginzan were absolutely amazing.
Doesn't that mean that as one of the shareholders, he can also get a share of the silver mine?
"Your Highness, is the silver mine really that big?"
Tang He swallowed, his voice couldn't help but tremble, and he couldn't hide his excitement.
